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Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

Baroness Orczy
Betrayed, Woods, Guillotine

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

Baroness Orczy
England, Emotion, Century
Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.31, Xist Publishing

Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.

Baroness Orczy
Fall, Heart, Idols
Baroness Orczy (2012). “I Will Repay”, p.56, House of Stratus

She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

Baroness Orczy
Two, People, Done
Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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